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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 15, November-December 1941
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Page 9 I said that was too bad. "And now no one will give me a job," he said. "So do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to destroy myself!" "No!" "Yes! I'm going to jump headfirst off this bridge, and almost before I know it, I'll be a bloated corpse." "How very melodramatic," I commented. He looked pleased. "Do you really think so? Well, here I go!" And there he went. But he didn't dive. He went feet-first, and holding his nose. But he made a beautiful splash. -------- Excerpting and Binding By Langley Searles The appearance of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES and the five issues of FANTASTIC NOVELS has not by any means made excerpt-binding obsolete; not only has the supply of available reprints been scarcely touched, but, at the present rate of use --- 60,000 words bi-monthly --- it won't be for years. Moreover, with the exception of Merritt's novels, very little stuff of pre-1930 vintage is seeing the light of printer's ink. And besides, much Munsey s-f will probably never be reprinted at all --- no Burroughs, for example, and few if any of the lesser-known and not as well-done yarns of England, Smith and Flint. (Have you noticed that outside of "The Blind Spot" and sequel, only one Flint story has been reprinted? It's no accident; the reception that "The Lord of Death" met with has discouraged the early appearance of the remainder of his stories. In fact, you may never see them reprinted at all.) Plenty of those old-timers are pretty tame reading nowadays; of course, if you read 'em back in 1918 or so, memory can still play the hypnotist with you when you see them again, but if you read them for the first time in 1941 and your hindsight is not 25 years but only 5 --- All of which shows that excerpting and binding is in no sense out of date in 1941, any more than it was in 1931, or will be in 1951. And hence a few pointers on the subject would be timely to note, for it is far more of an art than is generally supposed. Once a serial is ex-
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Page 9 I said that was too bad. "And now no one will give me a job," he said. "So do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to destroy myself!" "No!" "Yes! I'm going to jump headfirst off this bridge, and almost before I know it, I'll be a bloated corpse." "How very melodramatic," I commented. He looked pleased. "Do you really think so? Well, here I go!" And there he went. But he didn't dive. He went feet-first, and holding his nose. But he made a beautiful splash. -------- Excerpting and Binding By Langley Searles The appearance of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES and the five issues of FANTASTIC NOVELS has not by any means made excerpt-binding obsolete; not only has the supply of available reprints been scarcely touched, but, at the present rate of use --- 60,000 words bi-monthly --- it won't be for years. Moreover, with the exception of Merritt's novels, very little stuff of pre-1930 vintage is seeing the light of printer's ink. And besides, much Munsey s-f will probably never be reprinted at all --- no Burroughs, for example, and few if any of the lesser-known and not as well-done yarns of England, Smith and Flint. (Have you noticed that outside of "The Blind Spot" and sequel, only one Flint story has been reprinted? It's no accident; the reception that "The Lord of Death" met with has discouraged the early appearance of the remainder of his stories. In fact, you may never see them reprinted at all.) Plenty of those old-timers are pretty tame reading nowadays; of course, if you read 'em back in 1918 or so, memory can still play the hypnotist with you when you see them again, but if you read them for the first time in 1941 and your hindsight is not 25 years but only 5 --- All of which shows that excerpting and binding is in no sense out of date in 1941, any more than it was in 1931, or will be in 1951. And hence a few pointers on the subject would be timely to note, for it is far more of an art than is generally supposed. Once a serial is ex-
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